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Hopefully, he has--cough--written paragraphs that are easy to delete, not easy to modify. Ha. Ha. Ha. But seriously, this general idea strikes me as being appl
by braythwayt 11y ago
Hopefully, he has--cough--written paragraphs that are easy to delete, not easy to modify. Ha. Ha. Ha.
But seriously, this general idea strikes me as being applicable to writing words as well. Write in such a decoupled way that it is relatively easy to excise paragraphs and sections without destroying the rest of the piece.
That may introduce a small amount of redundancy, but it also makes it easy to read in smaller chunks, reorder, or remove outright rather than edit portions that no longer fit.
- tariqali34 11y agoDo remember to actually delete paragraphs though. I've seen long-form articles that were really just several short-form articles that are linked together by a listicle format. If I'm lucky, there may even be a few transition phrases or a narrative that would justify the listicle format. All these articles may have been good if the writer wasn't so wedded to the long-form format and started deleting paragraphs. But since he was wedded to the format, all the reader sees is a rather meandering and dull piece. It's an example of the sum of pieces being greater than the whole.